A key contribution to Darwin's thinking was the concept of limits put on the geometric growth of populations by nature,originally proposed by:
A)Charles Lyell.
B)Thomas Malthus.
C)Karl Popper.
D)Peter Raven.
E)Russel Wallace.

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Thomas Malthus proposed the concept of limits on population growth in his work "An Essay on the Principle of Population", which Darwin read in the early 1830s and was influenced by. This idea was important in Darwin's thinking about natural selection and the competition for resources among individuals in a population.

A Key Contribution to Darwin's Thinking Was the Concept of Limits